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Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) Exam Domain
Focus your study on this domain with targeted practice questions. This domain accounts for 10% of your OSCP exam score.
The Vulnerability Scanning domain is one of 8 exam domains on the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification exam by OffSec. At 10% of the total exam, this domain is important but should be balanced with higher-weighted domains in your study plan.
The OSCP exam consists of 100 questions with a time limit of 24 hours and a passing score of 70%. That means approximately 10 questions on your exam will come from the Vulnerability Scanning domain.
Port Scanning
A technique used to identify open ports and services available on a networked host by sending connection requests to a r...
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A web security vulnerability that allows attackers to inject malicious client-side scripts (usually JavaScript) into web...
Zero-Day Exploit
An attack that targets a previously unknown vulnerability in software, hardware, or firmware before the vendor has relea...
Buffer Overflow
A vulnerability that occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it can hold, causing adjacent memory...
Vulnerability Assessment
A systematic process to identify, quantify, and prioritize security vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networ...
Penetration Testing
An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, network, or application performed to evaluate its security pos...
Container Security
The process of implementing security tools, policies, and best practices to ensure that containerized applications (Dock...
SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
A testing methodology that analyzes source code, bytecode, or binary code for security vulnerabilities without executing...
These certifications also cover topics related to Vulnerability Scanning:
Vulnerability Management — 15% of exam
Vulnerability Management — 30% of exam
Reconnaissance & Scanning — 15% of exam
Incident Handling & Vulnerability Management — 25% of exam
Information Gathering & Vulnerability Scanning — 22% of exam
Scanning & Exploitation — 30% of exam